It is often said that the relativistic fusion of time with space rules out genuine change or “becoming”. I offer the classical sequential growth models of causal set theory as counterexamples.
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Sorkin, R.D. (2007). Relativity Theory Does Not Imply that the Future Already Exists: A Counterexample. In: Petkov, V. (eds) Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 153. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6318-3_9
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